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Margaret F. Bonafide
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The cash-strapped school district should not count on the state to give it extra money to solve its $4 million shortfall, state Sen. Robert W. Singer said Wednesday, expressing frustration with the district's inability to balance its books or estimate its student population.

"They're not going to get a bailout," Singer, R-Ocean, said during an editorial board meeting with the Asbury Park Press. However, later he did not rule out a state loan, assuming the district's facts are verified.

Singer, a former township committeeman and mayor who represents Lakewood in the state Senate, ...